2 Year International Certification Training starting in 2018

We are excited to announce our 2 year certification training in Deep Democracy Coaching, Facilitation and Consulting in 2018. Learners will be able to take the total of 8 seminars in Amsterdam, San Francisco, Kyiv, Moscow, Cairo, Nairobi, Bangkok, HoCh MinhCity and Yangoon, Myanmar. Some of you might have the opportunity to take a module in another country. In between the modules you will have online classes and create peer groups that work locally together but also have additional peer groups with learners and facilitators from other locations. Check our website and facebook page for detailed program information, costs etc by mid September.

Our students raise money for co-learners from disadvantaged countries for our Barcelona Intensive

We are so touched by our student community who have created a crowdfunding project to raise 30,000 US $ in travel funds for our co-learners from currency disadvantaged regions and countries. What a fantastic group of learners we have. Thank you, thank you, thank you ! Here is the link for the crowdfunding project in case you are tempted to assist them !

Wonderful learning experiences here in Nairobi in our "Kiss the Frog" Seminar. Oh my God - we are so blessed with our learning community here. Working on the spirit of tradition, Africa as the cradle of mankind, Africa as our mother, whose children we are. Africa as cradle of diversity - bringing forth the multispectral rainbow that is called humanity today. And then young Africans, wanting to forge new roads, needing to debate with their families and parents, that having their own dreams and visions is not disrespectful to the tradition, but an appreciation of them in their deepest core. Those where some of the conclusions that our group came to over the weekend.

Love, Power, War and Miracles - 10 Day Intensive in Barcelona

We are thrilled to have finalized Barcelona as our new location for the 2015 Intensive. It's a great creative city and we hope withing fair traveling distance for our students in Africa, USA, Northern and Central Europe and Russia and Ukraine.

"Business Clinic" in Kyiv with Investgazeta, Ukraine's leading Investment Newpaper.

Interesting evening in our "Business Clinic" in Kyiv, organized jointly by DDI and Investgazeta, Ukraine's leading investment newspaper. Good discussion about the core of business, how business conflicts are expressions of creativity that can be harnessed to move the business forward, and a live case discussion with an IT entrepreneur on the relationship between the business management and development teams. Organizations often look for systemic solutions that eliminate conflict; we look for systemic solutions that use the energy in unavoidable conflicts to move companies forward. For this purpose, we recommend facilitated group process with all stakeholders, once a year, for one day, for every forward thinking company.

How can we become congruent and stay connected with our deep and diverse experiences, making them useful for our teams, and not lose sight of the purpose and goal that we are trying to achieve? We think our 10-day Intensive answers this question — Process-oriented Leadership. We will learn facilitation methods to discover a group’s deeper direction for increased results. We will practice to unfold the diversity of our inner experiences while leading and facilitating. We will also study to co-lead and facilitate the teams that we belong to.

Process-oriented leadership unifies spiritual direction, relationships, feelings, and their integration into our own project goals, as well as our team and organizational directions.

Process-oriented Leadership, which includes large and small group facilitation and conflict resolution, stands on three pillars:

(1) inner work skills to find the detachment and strength to flow with the river, discover its wild currents, and use their force;

(2) facilitation and conflict resolution skills to support the boat crew to get along with and use the turbulences; and

(3) developing and staying connected with the deeper vision and goals of the team or organization > the place to which both the river and the boat crew would like to go.

This intensive is meant for facilitators, leaders, consultants, therapists and coaches, and community builders, as well as for artists, scientists, meditators, and environmentalists with an interest in future design.